Parents decide whether to drive kids to school based on distance, traffic dangers
Parents mostly worry about the distance between home and school, and traffic dangers in making the decision to drive their child to and from school, says a report “Kids Walk to School, Then and Now: Barriers and Solutions” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sometimes those fears are founded.
Mario Palomares, 14, of Chicago usually would get picked up from school but on a day he didn’t, everything changed. The Chicago Tribune reports on his remarkable story from injury to recovery in “ ‘Miracle child’ goes home from hospital.”
--Mary Forgione / For the Los Angeles Times
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